The importance of quiet…

We’ve had such a busy week. Just now I realised that it’s so important to have those moments when nothing much is happening and even this afternoon I spent time with a friend just sorting through buttons. Why? you might ask… well my Macmillan group was given yet another jar of very old, stale fastenings. Not just buttons, but snap fasteners, and suspenders with hooks and eyes. We never know what we’ll find and many of them smell nasty, so today they were washed and rinsed, dried in the sunshine before we started sorting. Lots were thrown away – broken, damaged or plain dirty. But the action of trawling through them is quiet and relaxing – just what we needed after such a busy week. 😉